Stricter Gun Laws In The United States

Although Obama’s intentions may be pure, the gun laws that he and his administration have gotten enacted fail to consider the long term effect that they will have. These laws are created on the faulty premise that the amount of gun crimes and gun violence can be drastically decreased by restricting legally obtained firearms. The fallacy of this premise can be easily established by looking at California which has the strictest gun laws in the country and is still home to one of the U.S.’s top 5 most dangerous cities. Making it tougher to legally obtain a firearm does not promote gun safety or deter gun violence but makes it harder for law abiding citizens to exercise their constitutional right to bear arms. These new laws main purpose is to strengthen the gun purchasing process on both the gun customer and the gun dealer. They will do this by requiring a dealer of any sort to have a license to be legally able to sell a weapon as stated here “These laws are just like any other, breaking them has consequences, Failure to obtain a license to sell will carry criminal penalties of up to 5 years in prison and a fine of …show more content…
As stated by The Washington Post, “the strictest state in the nation is California, where two attackers killed 14 people and injured 21 at an office holiday party in San Bernardino on Wednesday”(Phillips). This further explains how these new gun laws will prove only as ineffective. These laws being legally enforced will only persuade more citizens to go outside the law to obtain a firearm should they desire. This goes to explain that criminals no matter the laws in effect will be able to get a gun. As Russell states here, “Limiting guns, or the way people buy guns, is not going to solve the problem,” gun dealer Shelly Handleman said’’. All of which gives many examples and insight as to just how ineffective these laws will prove to